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Book SynopsisThe growing polarization between the rich and powerful and the poor and powerless, the yawning social and developmental divide and the multidimensional systemic crisis of capitalism have given rise to a fundamental problem of our times: barbarism or socialism? Will we continue on the path of capitalist barbarism or move to a more just socialist ...
Table of ContentsPreface * Why Socialism? * Introduction * Socialisms of the 20th and 21st Centuries (James Petras) Part 1 - Reinventing Socialism: Reinventing Socialism and Recovering Marx (Michael Lebowitz) * Cloistering Criticism or Breaking Bonds? (Errol Sharpe) * Western Ideology: Modernisms and the Attack on Marxism (Thom Workman) * Crisis, Movements, Counter-Hegemony: In Search of the New (Bill Carroll) Part 2 - Organization and Strategy: The Political Instrument for Socialist Transformation (Marta Harnecker) * Class Organization (Mauro Casadio & Luciano Vasapollo) * Socialist Strategy, Yesterday and Today (Murray E. G. Smith & Josh Dumont) Part 3 - Prospects and Limitations * The Prospects for Socialism: A Question of Capital and Class (Hugo Radice) * Venezuela Under Chavez: Prospects and Limitations for Socialism (Jeffrey Webber) * Conclusion: Socialism or Barbarism? (James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer)
